Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop

Summary: Impala: an open-source MPP SQL engine for Hadoop providing low-latency, high-concurrency execution for BI/read-mostly analytic queries where batch frameworks (e.g., Hive) fall short. Paper presents architecture/components and empirical superiority vs other SQL-on-Hadoop systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 271
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00022226941
Overall Rank: 476 | 96.70%
DOI: -

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113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00046764513
241	DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store	2013	VLDB	0.00031420034
305	SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units	2009	VLDB	0.00028248614
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